After releasing a pair of well-received hip-hop albums, Kid Cudi has switched up his sound with “WZRD,” a psych-rock experiment
between the Cleveland hip-hop artist and producer Dot Da Genius. On
Tuesday (Feb. 28), the day of “WZRD’s” release, Cudi took to Twitter
to thank fans for supporting the side project — and to badmouth
his label, Universal Republic, for shipping what he considers to be a
low number of physical copies of the album.
“Ok
so just a heads up, my weak ass label only shipped 55k physicals
cuz they treated this like some indie side project tax right off
[sic],” Cudi posted.”So i apologize on behalf of my weak ass major
label. And I apologize for the lack of promo, again, my weak ass
major label.”
Cudi also claimed that Universal
Republic “tried to rush me thru this so i can just give em another
MOTM [“Man On the Moon” album], but guess what? F— that, next
album is WZRD. MOTM3 on hold til 2014.”
